£1 a box for the NHS
Many of our children engage in charity to work to raise money and awareness for both local and national charities and today we were very pleased to hear about what Cara has been doing to support our NHS.
Over the past couple of weeks, Cara has been picking, weighing, boxing and then selling…
Stop-Motion by Ellie (3SA)
Ellie has created her very own stop-motion video and this can be viewed below. We're all very impressed with her technical skills.
Creativity Challenge
As you know our three school aims are creativity, excellence and resilience.
As our first whole school challenge we would like focus on the first of these school aims by seeing how creative you all are, by using the ‘junk’ you have around the house.
We imagine that in your house you have…
500 Words - The Nice Story
The Nice Story
By Bruno (Year 1)
Chapter 1
Once upon a time, a big explosion happened in the middle of nowhere and there created some monsters and aliens. Then there was a shadow. It had wings and scales and red eyes. It had a metal mask. The dragon had a big, big, big…
Kicking off Science Week
Science Week at Bridge School started with some very excited children attending an assembly on Monday morning in the school hall led by Miss Astin and Dr Nelson from The King’s School, Canterbury who also run Saturday Smarties as part of the Canterbury Primary Science Partnership.
The children…
Year 3 learn about Palm Oil
For a Christmas present, the adults in Year 3 adopted an orangutan for the children. Since then, they have wanted to help to stop the production of unsustainable palm oil in order to save the orangutans in Borneo becoming extinct.
They began their learning journey by looking at how…
Darwin Diaries
Year 6 have been learning about Charles Darwin and, this week, have been writing a letter in the style of Charles Darwin.
Sophie came along to show me her writing today and explained that she was using old-fashioned vocabulary and lots of descriptive language in her letter which you can see…
What Makes You Unique?
Mrs Smith and a number of pupils in Year 6 have been working extremely hard during lunchtimes, art lessons and at home to create some truly unique and personal art pieces. Each piece of art aims to express each pupil’s personality and can be seen in the gallery below.
The artwork is mixed-media…
500 Words - The Snow Globe
The Snow Globe
by Amelie
One day, Lucy was in the loft, when she came across the old Christmas stuff from last year. Lucy saw a glimpse of something glowing brightly, she bent down and pulled out a globe of some sort. I can't remember this from last year, she said. I wonder when it got up…
500 Words - The Haunted House
The Haunted House
By Lily
Once on a very dark, cold night there lived the Nicholls family. They were a kind hearted, happy family.
Their house was quite grand but there was only one thing about their house, their house was a ……………. HAUNTED HOUSE!!
The story begins with all the…
Eco Action Plan
Last Friday, children from the Eco Team presented to the whole school after having recently carried out an Environmental Review to find out how environmentally friendly our school is and what we can improve in order to achieve our Bronze Eco Schools Award.
We came up with three areas that we…
Poppy's Poetry
Earlier this week, Poppy came to the Headteacher's Office with some excellent poetry which we'd like to share with you. I was really impressed by the language used and the mood that Poppy has managed to convey - well done Poppy.
THE HILL
by Poppy
Away lives the hill
far far moon…